Call for volunteers for a major research project
Dear friends, As I have mentioned in the past, in January 2017 I will be starting a major new project entitled “History of the Orthodox People” (HOP). The main goal
Dear friends, As I have mentioned in the past, in January 2017 I will be starting a major new project entitled “History of the Orthodox People” (HOP). The main goal
By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – 30.11.2016 While a year has passed since Turkey shot down a Russian jet in Syria and while a few months have passed since the beginning of rapprochement between both countries that includes co-operation in Syria and co-operation in the field of energy, their bi-lateral ties remain […]
While I’m not a Dodd-Frank fan, it’s not because it was too harsh, but because it didn’t really do much of anything. It was the typical neoliberal bait and switch, designed to look tough for public consumption, while merely making tweaks around the edges of a financial system that requires systemic, paradigm level change.
Trump’s support of repealing Dodd-Frank tells you all you need to know. A Trump Presidency will see Wall Street felons who should be in prison, running as wild and free as ever.
Sputnik – November 30, 2016 Turkish President’s intention to depose Syrian leader contradict with previously reached agreements between Russia and Turkey, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Wednesday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s statements on his intention to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad run counter to earlier reached agreements between Russia and Turkey, Russian Deputy […]
Painting by Attila Richard LukacsImagine you're a professional politician who's been striving for decades to get to the top of the heap. And then imagine that the Senate is the top of the heap. Say... nominal Democrat-- he's a Blue Dog-- Joe Donnelly, an unlikely freshman senator from Indiana, who should never have gotten into the Senate in the first place.
By Jan Oberg
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. More here.
On November 18, President-elect Donald Trump named Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his attorney general. Sessions will be one of the most conservative U.S. lawmakers to to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official. He is also staunchly opposed to marijuana legalization – ridiculously so. [1]
Sessions is a bit goofy and old-fashioned when it comes to his views on cannabis, to say the very least.
Oscar Andersons hus i Anchorage - ett av stadens äldsta hus.Alaska är präglat av sina svenskar, från de första upptäckarna och Sitka-guvernörerna till stadsgrundare och missionärer under 1900-talet. Vetenskapsradion Historia söker Alaskas svenska rötter.Svenskar var med i alla skeden i Alaskas moderna historia.
Here are my latest efforts at presenting the public banking model by power point. The longer version was at an event in Englewood, CO, on October 30, called “Taking Back the Money Power: The Public Option in Banking.” The shorter version was at an event in Santa Rosa, CA, on November 9 called “Cannabis Cash […]
The Syrian Red Crescent has already dispatched dozens of ambulances to war-torn Aleppo [Xinhua]
Russian media is quoting official sources in the Defense Ministry as saying that they have dispatched several military transport aircraft carrying medical personnel, field hospitals, and medicines in a bid to alleviate the plight of the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled eastern Aleppo in the past few days.
The Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah and Russian air power, has made significant gains in recapturing key districts in Islamist rebel-held Aleppo.
Prior to the U.S. election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and the Obama White House, were saying that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was aiming to make Americans distrust the results of the November election. Of course, at that time, Clinton was considered almost certain to win...
The number of people contracting HIV and then AIDS has been rising in the past six years, Chinese medical authorities have said [Xinhua]
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has marked an increase in the number of people contracting HIV/AIDS, a report has shown.
On the eve of the United Nations World AIDS Day on December 1, the CDC said that the number of people aged 15 to 24 testing positive for HIV/AIDS increased four-fold between 2010 and 2016.
Tryckfrihetsförordningen 1766.250-årsjubilerande tryckfrihetsförordningen hade en svår första tid, präglad av motgångar och motsättningar.
4.7/5 (27) As readers here can tell, over this past week I've been largely concentrating on geopolitical stories, particularly those that seem to have…
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While a year has passed since Turkey shot down a Russian jet in Syria and while a few months have passed since the beginning of rapprochement between both countries that includes co-operation in Syria and co-operation in the field of energy, their bi-lateral ties remain uneasy—a situation that largely owes its existence to the still-lingering disagreement over Syria, particularly the future of Assad, and the dual role Turkey happens to be playing there.
China’s economy needs to undergo structural reforms with focus on innovation, experts agree [Xinhua]
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Monday that global growth would accelerate to 3.3 per cent in 2017, up from 2.9 per cent this year, as part of its biannual economic outlook.
The report provided an optimistic outlook for the US, forecasting next year’s growth at 2.3 per cent, up from the 2.1 per cent it had estimated in September.
America’s vassal states of Europe were expecting a Hillary Clinton victory and were gearing up for a New Cold War with Russia, so Trump’s win has sent shock waves across the Continent, reports Gilbert Doctorow.
Looking at US history over a fairly long period of time, it is easy to see the destructive path that has accompanied the expansion of the American empire over the last seventy years...
The White Helmets, founded to rescue victims trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Syrian and Russian bombing, have become a favorite source for Western news media covering a story on Russian-Syrian bombing. Portrayed as humanitarian heroes for over the past year and even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize last summer, the White […]
The latest entrant into the NATO alliance, Montenegro, underscores both the absurdity of this archaic cold war relic and the dangers it poses to the United States. Yes, Montenegro is a real country, kind of: with a little over 600,000 citizens, and around 5,000 square miles, it has an army of under 2,000 soldiers and […]
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Originally posted at TomDispatch. Sometimes it’s tough to pull lessons of any sort from our confusing world, but let me mention one obvious (if little noted) case where that couldn’t be less true: the American military and its wars. Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. has been in a state of more or less permanent […]
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Security forces have finally launched a promised operation in the Hawija Plains.
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According to a Nov. 10th poll conducted by Pollfish, 23% of Trump supporters would have voted for Democratic hopeful, Bernie Sanders, based on his commitment to fight for the middle class and against large corporations. The same poll shows some regret already. 32% of Trump voters thought he wouldn't actually win and now 11% say if they had it to do over again, they wouldn't vote for him!
As the days have ticked past since the U.S. election, its implications, especially for the press, have been interpreted with agonizing slowness. The polls, so inaccurate, yet uniformly revealed public disrespect for the press. Ninety per cent of conventional press was hostile to Donald Trump, and 90 per cent of polling organizations predicted a comfortable Clinton victory...
Bill Bonner | A hellish train – loaded with trillions of dollars of looted resources – misallocated, stolen, and frittered away.
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There is a lot of ballyhoo raised in the West over Russia’s effort to boost its strategic nuclear potential while the US is cutting down. A Daily Beast report serves as a good example. It says, «While the US military has been steadily cutting the number of nukes it loads on submarines and bombers and in missile silos, Russian forces have recently been adding more». The program to upgrade the ground-based strategic offensive forces has been in focus recently to confirm the affirmation that it was Russia who started a new nuclear arms race.
In the two weeks since Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, the billionaire developer has adopted a noticeably softer demeanour from that of his insurgent campaign personality. While vetting a cabal of mostly right-wing Republicans for his incoming transition team, he has cautiously walked back from several contentious campaign talking points while attempting to shed off the most controversial elements of his base.
Kurt Nimmo | Member of a Wall Street secret society along with other banksters and high ranking members of the financial class.
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Now that the TPP is dead-- at least for now-- and won't be coming up in the lame duck, the Republicans were looking for a way to thank their K Street buddies for all the cash they poured into the elections. In fact, they also wanted to help the prescription drug corporations for the same reason. So... instead of a TPP in the lame duck, we get Fred Upton's 21st Century Cures bill again.
By Barbara McKenzie
First there was the Gay Girl of Damascus, back in 2011, and now we have @AlabedBana tweeting from Aleppo.
The Government’s Plan To Steal Your Money
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/the-deep-states-attempt-to-suppress-indias-gold-demand/
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The Tyranny In Our Future
Guest column by John Whitehead
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/29/tyranny-at-standing-rock/
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James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy joined Alan and Steven on Open Your Mind Radio to talk about filling the swamp, weaponized memes and a cashless society.
Assad intends to win Aleppo before Trump takes office.
Kurt Nimmo | Great vampire squid gets a seat at the table.
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Imagery date refers to Google Earth capture of land forms. Ice extent is for August 31, 2016 from MASIE. Serenity is docked at Devon Island. By Ron Clutz | Science Matters | November 28, 2016 Researchers found that ice conditions in the 19th century were remarkably similar to today’s, observations falling within normal variability. The […]
The momentum has shifted in Aleppo this week as the Syrian Army begin to advance, steadily driving out Western and Gulf-backed terrorist fighters under the command of Al Nusra Front – from their occupied enclaves in Eastern Aleppo. 21WIRE will post continuous ALEPPO UPDATES as we receive information…
Video and ground reports courtesy of RT…
What did Trump voters-- his potential victims-- enable on Nov. 8? In their mad dash to get even with the hated establishment, they unleashed something much worse. First I want to point out an OpEd by over 100 Jewish historians from universities all over America in last week's Jewish Journal.
The momentum has shifted in Aleppo this week as the Syrian Army begin to advance, steadily driving out Western and Gulf-backed terrorist fighters under the command of Al Nusra Front – from their occupied enclaves in Eastern Aleppo. 21WIRE will post continuous ALEPPO UPDATES as we receive information…
Trump’s cabinet = Wrecking Crew—Obamacare and Planned Parenthood foe Tom Price named to HHS, Mrs. Mitch McConnell to Transportation…..--Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) chairs House Budget Committee, and has written bills to kill Obamacare
--Elaine Chao is married to Mitch McConnell, and was Bush II Labor secretary; Trump names her Transportation Secretary
--DC Republicans delete plan to register women for the draft, and Texas extremists impose rule requiring burial of fetal remains—but only from abortions
Over the past week, the Syrian military has re-taken more than 40 percent of the territory in east Aleppo that had for several years been controlled by the rebels. Most believe that this last large population center not controlled by the government will soon return to government control. After this, the nearly six year insurgency would likely soon be completely defeated. Meanwhile Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly desperately attempting to make an agreement with the Russian government to halt the Syrian army advance into rebel-held east Aleppo.
Media Monarchy plays Peterson Brothers, Pond, Son Of The Velvet Rat and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for November 29, 2016. ♬
Many are still unaware of the economic reality in Cuba.